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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2016-09-14 14:21
:-) Glad to help!
Scraping in different directions can help even out the troughs. I find it easier to change the angle of the reed than the knife. That way the knife-hand gets to do its usual stroke, while the reed-hand positions the cane under the blade; you have all the degrees of freedom you could wish for ("pitch", "roll" and "yaw").
Think before each stroke of the blade - you can't make reeds on auto-pilot.
I also like to rough-in the scrape quickly at first and then take time refining - often over several sessions. I count my strokes at the beginning (even when taking off the bark) but use only sight and crow at the later stages. That way I know I am refining a well-balanced rough-scrape and not trying to compensate for early errors.
The mental transition from "whittling" to "dusting" is hard to do at one sitting and the cane needs to rest, dry-out and recover its shape before finishing. It helps (mentally) to have a different blade for finishing, though both should be wickedly sharp at all times.
Good luck!
J.
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